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Four dead in alleged triple homicidesuicide

By Ally Melnik amelnik@iu.edu | @allylm1

Bloomington Police Department is currently investigating an alleged triple homicide-suicide that occurred Sunday morning, according to a press release from BPD. Officers responded to a call at approximately 10:17 a.m. to a house in the 2600 block of South Olcott Boulevard, according to the release. The caller said she went to the house to pick up her friend and no one answered the door when she knocked. She said she then used a key to enter the house, found her friend dead in her room, then left to call 911.

Officers found four deceased people with gunshot wounds when they arrived, according to the release. The release said evidence suggests a 61-year-old man shot and killed his 54-year-old wife, 26-year-old daughter and 18-yearold son before shooting himself, with no motive currently known.

Monroe County Coroner Joani Shields identified the four deceased as 18-year-old Jakob Mumper, 26-year-old Emma Mumper, 54-year-old Annamarie Greta Simon-Mumper and 61-year-old Jeffrey Mumper, according to a Tuesday morning Herald-Times article.

Jeffrey Mumper was listed as a former employee in IU’s Department of Physics, according to the IU Directory.

Simon-Mumper worked for the Monroe County Community School Corporation as an elementary school special education teaching assistant, and Jakob Mumper was a student and competitive swimmer at Bloomington High School North, according to the article.

Mayor John Hamilton released a statement Sunday evening mourning the loss of the family and urged for Bloomington residents to support each other.

“In this devastating moment, let Bloomington come together as one family, and remember we are here to take care of one another,” Hamilton said in the release.

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ARE WE IN A PUBLIC HEALTH CRISIS? IS THIS AN EMERGENCY? OR ARE WE JUST SEEING A SPIKE IN CASES OF THE CORONAVIRUS?

WE DON’T KNOW BECAUSE IU WON’T MAKE ITS DATA PUBLIC. Dr. Cole Beerer, director of symptomatic testing, said IU looks at 16 to 20 metrics to decide if classes can be held safely in person.

Despite this, just a handful of the metrics are publicly available.

The public can only see the number of cases, the positivity rate, the number of tests conducted and the percentage of quarantine beds available.

On Sept. 3, the university recommended that greek houses shut down after the Monroe County Health Department required at least 30 houses to quarantine. Director of Mitigation Testing Dr. Aaron Carroll said students living in greek houses had a 20% positivity rate — more than double the 8.1% positivity rate from last week.

IU triples first week case total in mitigation testing update

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IU requests $235 million from the state for construction

By Madison Smalstig msmalsti@iu.edu | @madi_smals

IU is proposing that $235 million be appropriated from Indiana’s state government to finance various construction projects as part of a state budget proposal for 2021.

The majority of the money requested will go to renovations and rehabilitation projects, said Thomas Morrison, vice president for capital planning and facilities.

These capital projects, which don’t include housing or athletic facilities, are introduced and considered by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education every two years. Ultimately, the Indiana general assembly decides which projects to fund.

Morrison said these projects will start in about 2022, if IU is given the money for the projects in 2021.

Morrison said it is possible the state will not award as much money in years past because of COVID-19. However, if the projects that the university has included this year are not funded this time, they will move to the top of the list the next time the university makes a request.

“The state cannot invest in every single project that we might request,” Morrison said. “We stick to our priorities and what our immediate needs are.”

Certain parts of the budget have been dedicated to larger shortterm projects, such as the renovation of the School of Public Health.

This renovation, which will cost about $65 million, includes replacing windows, adding air conditioning to portions of the building, adding accessibility for people with disabilities and removing asbestos, Morrison said. David Allison, dean of IU’s School of Public Health-Bloomington, said the renovation will also include updated labs, such as those used to conduct randomized control trials.

Allison said the facility improvements will help the school conduct more and better trials and overall assist the school in research and learning.

“You don’t do good science if you don’t have the good tools for good science,” Allison said.

Allison said contributing to public health and this school specifically is important now because of COVID-19. Science-based methods, such as those conducted by the School of Public Health, can be used to figure out things such SEE CONSTRUCTION, PAGE 4

By Matt Cohen mdc1@iu.edu | @Matt_Cohen_

IU’s total positive COVID-19 mitigation test results have more than tripled since last week’s total, according to a Sept. 8 dashboard update.

The school reported 905 total cases — a 631 case increase — in this week’s mitigation testing update. The overall positivity rate in Bloomington increased from 3.5% to 5.5%. The week of August 31 alone had a 7.26% positivity rate.

IU reported 1,370 total positive cases across mitigation and symptomatic cases including all campuses.

Of those, 1,226 are from the Bloomington campus. At IU-Bloomington, 16,448 total mitigation tests have been administered over the first two weeks.

IU’s symptomatic test positivity rate increased to above 50% over the last week as well. The overall symptomatic positivity rate is 38.6% in Bloomington, equating 341 positive tests. The dashboard additionally reports that 24.56% of the 1,421 live-in greek students who were tested over the last week returned positive. That is up from 8.1% over the first week of mitigation testing.

Greek-affiliated students living outside the houses produced a 13.7% positivity rate of 540 students tested.

Dorm residents had a 3.64% positivity rate over the 4,201 students tested. Off campus residents had a 4.66% positivity rate of 1,395 students tested.

More than 1,000 faculty and staff members were tested over the last week with a 0.48% positivity rate.

IU has introduced a tracker of how full the quarantine and isolation facilities are, which can be found on its dashboard. The facilities in Bloomington are 34% full. Those spaces are only open to students living in residence halls.

IU Theatre postpones play after backlash Students concerned about inaccurate casting of race, gender petitioned to cancel the show

By Claudia Gonzalez-Diaz clabgonz@iu.edu | @claudia_gd_

A play about the testimonies of refugees seeking asylum in the United States has been postponed indefinitely after backlash over callback decisions by the IU Department of Theatre, Drama and Contemporary Dance.

The play, “Asylum Anguish: Stories from the Border,” was written with characters of specific racial, ethnic and gender identities. But the theater department, like the rest of IU, is predominantly white and said it cannot cast “Asylum Anguish” as written.

In a letter to students who were called back for roles last week, the department said its casting would reflect how the refugee crisis is “worldwide and an urgent global problem.”

“In practice this means that ethnic authenticity will not be a principal factor in casting, though diversity will be,” the letter read.

A white cisgender woman in the department was called back for the role of a transgender Latina woman. A Black woman was called back to play a white Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer.

Casting is always criticized by actors and viewers, according to Jessica Gelt of the LA Times.

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A phone displays the current and upcoming productions for the IU Theatre. The production “Asylum Anguish: Stories from the Border” has been postponed indefinitely due to concerns over inaccurate depictions of characters during casting.

ent who could better fill the role, she wrote. But some actors say character roles should be filled by people who have shared the characters' experiences.

“Who has the right to tell what stories?” Gelt wrote. “And who gets to make that decision?”

This kind of debate is nu-

anced, which is why it deserves thought and interrogation by the department, said Jayne Deely, a second-year Latinx MFA playwriting candidate.

“I think bluntly canceling without creating structure for those conversations to start happening, you've wasted an oppor-

tunity,” Deely said.

Theater department students petitioned to cancel the play, but it has only been postponed so far.

Nearly 500 people had signed the petition as of Sept. 7.

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Local restaurants offering outdoor seating top service. However, outdoor seating is still an option to Bloomington customers.

By Raul Moreno morenor@iu.edu | @rafaeldotvdk

With recent guidelines issued for safety against the COVID-19 pandemic by the Monroe County Health Department and the return of the IU student population, many popular local restaurants around Bloomington have expanded and adjusted their outdoor seating options.

Here's a list of some of the restaurants with outdoor seating.

Soma Coffeehouse & Juice Bar While all locations have closed indoor dining, both the Soma on East Third Street and the one off Kirkwood Avenue are continuing to offer outdoor seating. Tables and benches have been arranged to accommodate for social distancing regulations. The coffeehouse has adopted a sanitation system, with signs indicating which tables have been cleaned and which are unavailable. Wi-Fi is still available for customers.

Runcible Spoon A weekend brunch destination for many students and Bloomington locals, the Runcible Spoon continues to offer seating both indoors and outdoors. In order to comply with statewide regulation, seating capacity has been reduced to 50% and sanitation measures have been modified. Owner Matt O'Neill said he hasn't seen any problems with students not wearing their masks inside the restaurant.

“They’re fine, the ones coming in here wear their masks, and they’re a great clientele to have,” O’Neill said.

“Students are still a critical

Siam House On the corner of South Dunn and Fourth Street, Siam House offers outdoor seating. Server Pim Harrison said it's been difficult to meet customer demand, with more people wanting to eat outside than what they can seat.

“On busy days, people want to wait up to 30 minutes for outdoor seating while it’s empty inside,” Harrison said.

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People sit outside of Yogi’s Bar and Grill on May 16 along Walnut Street. Multiple restaurants in Bloomington have expanded outdoor seating to encourage social distancing.

component to the business.”

Da Vinci Da Vinci is located on South Washington Street and is another addition to the list of Bloomington restaurants offering outdoor seating.

FARM Bloomington Manager Zach Rody said FARM lost around 35% capacity both indoors and outdoors due to the pandemic. He said the city closing down Kirkwood Avenue on weekends to allow for more sociallydistanced outdoor seating and highly benefited the restaurant.

“We’re lucky,” Rody said, “That has been a major boom.”

Kirkwood Avenue is closed

to traffic from 2 p.m. Thursdays to midnight Sundays, though the arrangement will end at the end of the month.

“What we do after that will be important,” Rody said. “But we appreciate the support we’ve gotten from students, parents and the community.”

Upland Brewing Company Upland Brewing Company continues to offer appropriately distanced outdoor seating. Upland said they have committed to prioritizing the safety of the Bloomington community through sanitation efforts that are detail-oriented and guided by the health department, according to their website.

Uptown Cafe

Like FARM Bloomington, Uptown Cafe has also benefited from Kirkwood Avenue being closed to traffic on weekends. Uptown Cafe has also publicly announced their commitment to the Bloomington community on their website, ensuring compliance with safety guidelines by spacing tables, providing and requiring masks and gloves for employees, offering voluntary contact tracing via their reservation system, and extending a request that guests respect and follow countywide COVID-19 safety measures.

seating had to be reduced, manager Levi Collison said there has been some help from the city.

“We were able to get permission from the city to take some parking spots from the street,” Collison said.

Malibu Grill Malibu Grill provides outdoor seating on the square.

While the previous outdoor

Brothers Bar and Grill Like Yogi’s, Brothers Bar and Grill has followed safety regulations by stopping bar-

Yogi’s Besides offering limited indoor seating, Yogi’s also continues to accommodate customers with outdoor seating options. While bartop service is unavailable at this time, Yogi’s provides limited bar seating indoors and outdoors.

Social Cantina Offering Mexican food with a “modern twist,” Social Cantina is currently providing indoor seating as well as outdoor seating options on the square along North College Avenue and West sixth Street. In addition to providing outdoor seating, Social Cantina now also makes use of electronic menus, which customers can access via smartphone.

The Tap A neighbor to Social Cantina and under the same ownership, The Tap also has outdoor tables close to the square along North College Avenue. While The Tap faced some initial cuts to occupancy, it was able to expand its outdoor seating options to accommodate for increased demand.

“We had the patio open before everything started, but we had to cut down on seating,” said The Tap employee Jacob Langfield. “We were able to work with the city to expand outdoor seating into some metered parking spaces.”

LLC leaders discuss Spruce quarantine Indiana passes 100,000 positive COVID-19 cases

By Wei Wang

daviwang@iu.edu | @WeiWangDavid23

Most residents in the Inspire Living-Learning Center in Spruce Hall were quarantined starting Aug. 29 following a positive COVID-19 case in the LLC. The Inspire LLC houses students with majors in the School of Education. This includes freshmen students and upperclassmen peer leaders.

Peer leaders aid LLC members academically, said Katie Cierniak, assistant director of the Inspire LLC. They also help the freshmen students navigate campus and college life.

IU sophomore Jason Nguyen, a peer leader in the LLC, said on Aug. 29 when he and everyone else in the LLC were deemed close contacts, they received an email from IU instructing them to go into self-quarantine and there was chaos.

Nguyen said although they only knew as much as the freshmen did about quarantining, the peer leaders tried to calm everybody down.

“With peer leaders, we’re trained to be like their mentor — their academic mentor, their emotional mentor,” he said. “But when it comes to COVID, we were not trained because we kind of left that with the professionals.”

More confusion followed that evening when contact tracers gave contradicting instructions to close contacts.

A contact tracer called Nguyen’s roommate at about 6 p.m. and informed him since they were living in a suite with a private bathroom, they could self-quarantine inplace instead of relocating to either Ashton Center or their homes.

This turned out to be false

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Most IU students living in the Inspire Living-Learning Center in Spruce Hall are quarantined either in Ashton Center or at home after a resident tested positive for COVID-19 on Aug. 29.

information when another contact tracer reached out to him later that night and informed him he had only two options as a close contact: move to Ashton or return home.

Nguyen said about three other peer leaders in the LLC, who also lived in suites, were given the false information by contact tracers. He said most people were called by contact tracers around 8 p.m. and given the final official instruction to move out, but some got the call at midnight and some the next day.

“It’s definitely miscommunicated — of what we were going to do,” Nguyen said.

“And that’s where the chaos stands.”

Kirk White, co-chair of the IU-Bloomington COVID Response Unit, said although he doesn’t have information about the specific case, IU’s recent upticks in COVID-19 cases have increased contact tracers’ workload.

As a peer leader, Nguyen said his role was to keep the floor calm and serve as emotional support for group leaders and freshmen. He said

since moving into quarantine, all the residents, both freshmen and peer leaders, have checked up on each other almost every day.

While IU gave the closecontact residents conflicting instructions, sophomore Courtney Mansfield, another peer leader at the LLC, said everyone came to a collective decision to stay in their respective dorm rooms and not come out right after they received the email notifying them to go into quarantine at about 3 p.m.

Mansfield said she felt frustrated it took them half a day to figure out what to do next for self-quarantining. She said many in the LLC didn’t know close contacts needed to move out to Ashton or their homes.

“I am a planner, and I like to kind of know ahead,” she said. “So since it all came down on the same day, there was just a lot of we-don’tknows, a lot of questions.”

But despite the quarantine and the confusion in just her second week on the job, Mansfield said she still loves being a peer leader and enjoys

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“All ten of us, we work so well together, so I think that because we are in this time that is a pandemic that we are able to as a team work through these challenges and obstacles,” she said.

Nguyen said people weren't mad when the infected resident apologized in the LLC’s GroupMe group chat.

He said he felt sad because the floor abided by health guidelines and took the precautions.

“There are a few cases in Spruce, so they might have thought it would have been like — they touched a handle,” he said. “And boom, boom, boom, all this happened.”

LLC residents abided by social distancing rules well and wore masks in the communal areas, some even in their own rooms, Nguyen said. He said when the LLC members went out for masked, small-group night walks on campus before the quarantine, they would even call out individuals not wearing masks when they saw one.

“We wanna stay here,” he said. “We did a very good job saying, ‘Hey. I don’t wanna get sick. You don’t wanna get sick. I don’t wanna be isolated from you guys. Let’s do this together.'”

Nguyen said he had hung out with the infected resident a lot, but both of them had worn masks when they were together. Nguyen tested negative for COVID-19 before his quarantine began.

“This community, we took all the precautions, wore masks, socially distanced, and it still happened,” he said. “So please, oh please, wear a mask. Please, just do it, because it works. So far this person is the only person who got a positive case.”

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Indiana has had more than 100,000 total positive COVID-19 cases since March 6, according to a Monday update to Indiana’s COVID-19 dashboard.

The state has had 100,394 total positive cases since its first one in March.

There were 596 new positive cases reported to the Indiana State Department of Health between noon Sunday and noon Monday, according to the dashboard.

Indiana had a 5.4% positivity rate from Aug. 25 to Aug. 31.

The positive test rate in Monroe County went up from 9% Friday to 13.3% Saturday. Monroe County’s positive test rate stayed around 3% or lower during early August, but since Aug. 23, the rate has increased.

The average positivity rate since then is around 9%.

Monroe County has 55 newly reported positive cases and 1,489 total, according to the dashboard.

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Tens of thousands protest in Belarus despite warnings From Tribune News Service

MOSCOW — Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered throughout Belarus on Sunday to call for longtime President Alexander Lukashenko to step down, despite security services warning that they would crack down on protests.

In Minsk alone, tens of thousands of protesters marched in the streets of the Belarusian capital in bad weather, waving the country's historic red-whitered flag and shouting "Belarus lives" as they moved through the city, observers said. Some reports placed the number of protesters at 100,000.

Many marched past the city's Palace of Independence in another part of the city, where Lukashenko is based. Some waved rainbow flags and played music.

Maria Kolesnikova, an opposition politician, marched along with them.

The capital's Independence Square was completely cordoned off and police blocked the protesters' route with barricades and barbed wire. Uniformed officials stood side by side holding shields.

Videos posted online showed armored vehicles on

the streets and police dragging protesters into prison transporters and police buses.

The Interior Ministry has said it was prepared to send in more personnel.

The ministry had warned people against participating in the protest, which was called by opposition forces as a "March of Unity" at Minsk's Independence Square.

Opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya called on her fellow Belarusians not to be intimidated.

"Remember, together we are strong," she said in a video message from Lithuania, where she fled to after losing to Lukashenko in the elections.

Tikhanovskaya, a 37-yearold foreign-language teacher, registered as a candidate in the election after her husband, a key Lukashenko opponent, was jailed in the run-up to the poll.

More than 100 people were arrested in Minsk ahead of Sunday's demonstration, the Interior Ministry said. More than 165 people were arrested according to Viasna, a human rights organization.

Demonstrations also swept through other cities. Videos from the city of Grodno showed marchers

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Opposition supporters gesture victory signs during a rally to protest against disputed presidential elections results Aug. 25 in Minsk, Belarus.

being stormed by groups of uniformed officers. There were also reports of tear gas being fired.

Security personnel used tear gas against marchers in Brest, according to opposition groups on the Telegram messaging service.

Sunday is the main day for opposition protests in

Belarus and last Sunday the demonstrations drew hundreds of thousands of people, despite a ban.

Protesters are calling not only for Lukashenko's resignation, but also for the release of political prisoners, new elections and the prosecution of police violence.

Anger is also growing

about a ban preventing Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, the head of the Catholic Church in Belarus, from entering the country.

German church officials called the ban "unacceptable" and joined the ranks of those criticizing the Belarusian authorities. Lukashenko has thus far avoided enter-

ing into any dialogue with the opposition. He claims to have won the August 9 elections by a margin of over 80%.

He has ruled the former Soviet country for over a quarter century.

By Claudia Thaler and Christian Thiele, dpa

Extreme heat made August the fourth-warmest month on record From Tribune News Service

August 2020 will go down as the fourth-warmest on record worldwide, with above average summertime heat in the United States and Mexico tempered slightly by below average temperatures in parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

Global temperatures for the month spiked around 0.9 degrees Celsius above the historical average, according to a new report by Europe's Copernicus Climate Change Service. That reading came in lower than the summers of 2018 and 2019, the agency said in a statement.

Still, high temperatures recorded over the past few months have put 2020 on track to become the second-hottest or possibly the hottest year on record.

Record-breaking highs have been registered around the world, including an Aug. 17 reading of 129.9 Fahrenheit in Death Valley, California, which could be the highest temperature re-

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U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., addresses the 2020 Republican National Convention virtually Aug. 27. Senate Republicans said Tuesday they will introduce and set up a floor vote on a slimmeddown virus stimulus bill.

Senate to vote soon on Republican stimulus bill From Tribune News Service TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Beachgoers enjoy the shade and sea breeze beneath trees at Valparaiso Plaza on Friday in Long Beach, California. A weather event this week has the potential to set all-time record high temperatures throughout Southern California.

corded.

Heatwaves brought higher-than-average temperatures to western and central Europe in August, while the number of days with heat stress falling in the "very strong" category was similar to last summer.

Northwestern Siberia and much of the Arctic Ocean also experienced above average heat.

Extreme heat has fueled the worst wildfire season in the Arctic, and that makes 2020 the second consecutive year to set a new record.

California is seeing widespread wildfire activity, with the second- and third-worst fires in the state's history recorded this year.

By Laura Millan Lombrana, Bloomberg News

Fire sparked in California by device used in gender-reveal party From Tribune News Service

LOS ANGELES — A fire that has burned more than 7,000 acres in San Bernardino County was caused by a smoke-emitting pyrotechnic device that was part of a gender-reveal party in a Yucaipa park, officials said. Such devices typically shoot off blue or pink smoke to signal the gender of an expected child.

The El Dorado fire near Yucaipa has burned more than 3,000 acres and forced evacuations in some communities.

"Cal Fire reminds the public that with the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn't take much to start a wildfire," the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said in a statement.

It was one of several massive fires burning in Califor-

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Kelsey Mueller, 16, holds her dogs while waiting with her family to be escorted from the evacuation zone at the Shaver Lake Marina parking lot during the Creek Fire on Sept. 7 in Shaver Lake, California.

Cal Fire is actively responding to 13 wildfires as of Tuesday, with only three being smaller than 10,000 acres.

nia amid an epic heat wave.

A fire in the Japatul Valley southeast of Alpine has burned more than 9,850 acres and destroyed at least 11 structures in addition to 25 outbuildings.

The blaze, dubbed the

Valley fire, was the nightmare scenario many had feared: a roaring wildfire chewing through vast stretches of the back country amid searing record-high temperatures, forcing homeowners to flee — all during a time of corona-

virus-induced mask wearing and social distancing.

Boiling clouds of smoke pouring from the fire rose into the air and filtered over the county with an acrid stench, making for unhealthy air conditions.

The Bobcat fire in the Angeles National Forest near Duarte broke out Sunday afternoon and forced Labor Day weekend visitors to flee.

It was not threatening homes.

In the Sierra National Forest northeast of Fresno, the 45,500-acre Creek fire trapped more than 200 hikers in the Mammoth Pool recreation area when it crossed the San Joaquin River on Saturday afternoon, prompting a massive rescue effort by the California National Guard.

By Jaclyn Cosgrove and Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times

Senate Republicans said Tuesday that they will introduce and set up a floor vote on a slimmed-down virus stimulus bill in an effort to break a month-long impasse on aid for the U.S. economy.

The bill, expected to feature some of the aspects of a $1 trillion proposal put forth

by Republicans a month ago, is expected to cost $500 billion to $700 billion.

"The Senate Republican majority is introducing a new targeted proposal, focused on some of the very most urgent health-care, education and economic issues. It does not contain every idea our party likes," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said in a statement. "I will be moving immediately today to set up a floor vote as soon as this week."

Senate Democrats are expected to block the bill, which would need 60 votes to pass under Senate filibuster rules.

Even so, White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who has talked with a handful of moderate Democrats in recent weeks, said Tuesday he was optimistic public pressure would push lawmakers into a compromise in the coming two weeks. He said the smaller package could serve as a "foundation" for further COVID-19 relief.

"There is a groundswell of support among rank-and-file Democrats and Republicans to suggest that there is some kind of compromise," Meadows said in an interview with

Fox Business News.

An earlier draft of the Republican bill would have provided a $300-per-week unemployment benefit enhancement, $105 billion for schools, a $10 billion grant to the U.S. Postal Service, funding for the Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, $45 billion to the Department of Health and Human Services for vaccines and testing needs and liability protections for employers.

It didn't include another round of $1,200 checks to individuals — something that President Donald Trump wants — or any aid to state and local governments, a key demand of Democrats.

"The stumbling block is aid to state and local governments," Meadows said Tuesday, reiterating his opposition to the Democrats' proposal for almost $1 trillion in aid for regional authorities that have seen their revenues devastated by the COVID-19 crisis.

McConnell worked for weeks to get most of his 53 Republicans on board with the plan in the face of opposition from deficit hawks concerned about adding to this year's $3.3 trillion budget deficit. His move comes as talks on a stimulus package between the White House and Democrats continue to be an impasse.

The two sides have been more than $1 trillion apart since negotiations broke off Aug. 7.

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the callbacks, the department’s Student Advisory Board called a town hall for students to discuss callbacks and messages sent between students and administrators. They normally have town halls twice a month but called this one a few days in advance, according to senior Taylor Ward, chair of the board.

During the meeting, several students called to cancel the show instead of postponing it to protect nonwhite and genderqueer students from trauma. Others called for the department to call off the entire season and reinvest its resources into

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And the positivity rate is still increasing. In this week’s update, IU reported students living in greek housing had a 24.56% positivity rate.

During this crisis, students, faculty and staff need more transparency from IU, not less.

We are calling on IU to make its full dashboard public and update the dashboard daily.

IU must make its full dashboard public In emails and social media posts, IU officials have repeatedly stressed the importance of contact tracing.

How successful has it been?

The university sends its tests to labs elsewhere to be analyzed. How quickly is the lab able to turn these test results around?

People with COVID-19 and their close contacts are required to quarantine or isolate themselves. How much of the campus population is currently required to quarantine?

There are 16 to 20 metrics that university health officials look at. What are they?

We have a right to know.

The dashboard must be updated daily IU’s dashboard says it is updated weekly. That’s not

anti-racism training.

About 40 people attended the first hour of the town hall.

But canceling the show without any dialogue robs theater students, staff and faculty of doing the work to understand and address racism and mistrust within the department, Deely said.

“To cancel without there being required conversations to come out of this is to just delay this from happening again,” Deely said.

Deely believes the department will never be able to safely perform a show such as “Asylum Anguish” if the department’s students and administration cannot engage in a meaningful conversation about why it can’t

be done now. This isn’t going to go away, Deely said.

Catherine Barker, a white sophomore majoring in musical theater, did not audition for a role in “Asylum Anguish” but was called back for the role of a trans Latina woman seeking asylum.

Barker declined the callback, feeling she wouldn't be able to accurately portray that experience.

“I think this issue is not just specific to this show,” Barker said. “It’s specific to all theater, ever. It’s based in the misrepresentation of culture onstage, usually by white people.”

“Asylum Anguish” was written and directed by Jane Page and Gavin CameronWebb, both of whom are

good enough. We’ve seen since campus closed originally in March that this pandemic is fast-moving and ever-changing.

“We have a bunch of metrics that we are following. I know there has been some criticism of the public website in terms of how frequently it is updated," Dr. Anthony Gardner, director of contact tracing, said in an interview for a different story. "The goal there was really, and again this is higher ups making these decisions, to provide numbers that are put in context.”

If IU officials can see this data, why can’t we?

Why can’t instructors — who may be at an elevated risk — who come to class to teach know what’s going on?

Why can’t students know?

Why can’t staff members know?

Purdue University updates its dashboard daily.

The University of Notre Dame updates its dashboard daily.

So do Ball State University, the University of Michigan and the University of Nebraska, among others.

Why can’t we?

“Right now, there are people on social media posting about how irresponsible students are going to force us all back online,” IU President Michael McRobbie wrote in an email Aug.

20. “They think it is inevitable. Prove them wrong.”

By calling students back for the semester, the university bears much responsibility for the containment of COVID-19 on campus.

IU has asked a lot of its students, faculty and staff — rightfully so if this semester is to be successful — but the university must also realize its own role.

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white and have volunteered at the nonprofit Friends of Orange County Detainees since before the play was written.

Cameron-Webb said they began to volunteer without the plan to eventually develop a play.

The show is a staged reading of testimonies from six immigration detainees who gave the interviewers permission to share their story, according to the LA Times.

The script is based on letters, recordings and court documents the detainees shared with Page and Cameron-Webb, who keep in contact with most of the immigrants they wrote about in “Asylum Anguish,” Cameron-Webb said in an email.

The writers update the

script as they receive new information from the asylum seekers and immigration policies change.

Deely said people share others’ stories on social media all the time, such as reposting a photo of Breonna Taylor or the last words of Elijah McClain. This isn’t to take ownership of their trauma but to raise awareness of it.

“Sharing stories is how change happens, and we do it all the time,” Deely said.

But as important as the narratives in “Asylum Anguish” are to Deely and the department, Deely said perhaps they can tell them at another time. Systemic racism and departmental mistrust cannot be healed in a

“To cancel without there being required conversations to come out of this is to just delay this from happening again.”

Jayne Deely, a second-year Latinx MFA playwriting candidate

couple weeks’ time.

“Maybe we just weren’t ready," Deely said. “I think that’s a fair thing to think about.”

If you are part of the theater department and would like to speak about the issues addressed in this piece, please email arts@idsnews. com.

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as the effectiveness of lockdowns, Allison said.

“Never before has the importance of our two schools of public health at Indiana University been more profound and palpable,” Allison said.

Another one of the bigger projects included in the budget is the construction of a new building adjacent to the Methodist hospital site for IU Health for IU School of Medicine’s Indianapolis location. The project is similar to the

one recently completed in Bloomington where a hospital was built adjacent to the school, except about three times larger, Morrison said. A third of the money required for the project, $75 million, is coming from the budget.

The other two thirds has been raised by IU. A portion of the budget is also dedicated to routine maintenance. Some of the small routine renovation projects include roofs, windows, fire alarms and elevator repairs. The university maintains more than 800 buildings on all of its

campuses. Morrison said a lot of money goes into routine maintenance of those buildings and the equipment inside them, such as air conditioning and boilers, Morrison said.

Morrison said sometimes it is hard for people to recognize some of this work because so much of it is behind the scenes. However, in order to maintain the buildings many people consider to be fixtures of IU's campuses, it’s important to spend money on things such as replacing equipment before it starts to malfunction.

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Dining halls across campus have cut both seating and menu options during the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing IU Dining to cut down on food waste, said Rahul Shrivastav, executive director of IU Dining.

“We cannot afford to deplete those resources in our hands,” Shrivastav said.

During the pandemic, IU Dining has provided both pre-prepared and madeto-order meals to students through the Grubhub app in order to keep dining halls from becoming crowded.

Due to this new system, food waste has slightly decreased because meals are being prepared for individual orders instead of large crowds of students where a surplus of meals could oc-

cur, Shrivastav said.

Chefs also make effective use of what ingredients they have, ensuring none are wasted, Shrivastav said.

“We use every part, stem to root,” Shrivastav said.

Food orders are cancelled if they aren’t picked up after about an hour, Shrivastav said.

After that time, prepackaged food items, such as chips or drinks, will be resold and hot meals are thrown away, said Olivia Meeker, a student supervisor at Woodland Eatery.

However, very few meals are wasted. While factors such as post-consumer food waste are outside of IU’s control, IU Dining has kept pre-consumer food waste low.

Meeker has worked four night shifts every week, and she said on bad nights only

five or six meals are tossed.

On good nights, no food is thrown away, Meeker said.

IU Dining communicates with its food vendors almost every week, sharing reports so the vendors can stock up in their warehouses, Shrivastav said.

“We share our reports with them, like how many people are dining and what they’re dining,” Shrivastav said.

IU Dining also saves parts of unclaimed meals that can be reused. Items such as chicken can be reused as ingredients in other dishes if possible, Meeker said.

However, post-consumer food waste, uneaten parts of meals that are thrown away, is still the largest source of waste, Shrivastav said.

Freshman Trinity Vaughan said she tries to not

contribute to student food waste.

“We try to eat as much as we can, and then if there’s some stuff like lettuce, some stuff we can’t really eat by itself, we throw that out,”

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Vaughan said.

IU has not seen a change in post-consumer food waste because the food is not being eaten in dining halls and is harder to track, Shrivastav said.

Tables create a zigzag pattern Sept. 3 in the North Dining Room of the Woodland Eatery. Dining halls have cut seating and menu options during the pandemic, allowing IU Dining to cut down on food waste.

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Christopher Nolan’s new film ‘Tenet’ may not be perfect, but it’s worth a watch Zach Hsu is a sophomore in media.

The release of Christopher Nolan’s “Tenet” has become much more dramatic than what would normally be expected from a blockbuster.

Originally set for theatrical release July 17, it was delayed three times due to the coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic changed “Tenet” from a standard big-budget release into more of an event.

The second trailer for “Tenet,” released May 21, proudly advertised it would be “Coming to Theaters,” — a shocking statement to make while theaters were still closed and new cases were still being reported. But the statement turned out to be true, and “Tenet” has now been released in theaters across the country.

But away from all the hype, is “Tenet” actually any good?

Well, maybe.

Describing the plot of “Tenet” almost feels like a useless endeavor. I think I was able to follow it for the most part, but the details are still muddled.

The basic concept is pretty simple. John David Washington and Robert Pattinson have to stop a third world war.

But also there’s time travel.

But it’s not really time travel, it’s technically time inversion.

And there are more characters. And more details about time inversion. And some twists along the way.

There’s a lot to love about “Tenet,” starting with the man himself, Christopher Nolan.

While this doesn’t stack up to some of his best work such as “The Dark Knight,” “Memento” and “Inception,” he has a

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fairly reliable track record of making good movies. The action in particular has Nolan’s fingerprints all over it.

There are a number of great action set pieces throughout, most notably at the end. The battle during the climax was so insane I could barely believe it. One really well-choreographed fight scene early on was another standout. A lot of the action is so enjoyable because of how fresh it is, so I won’t reveal anything else.

Although Washington wasn’t as good as I hoped he

would be, Pattinson and Elizabeth Debicki picked up a lot of the slack. While they didn’t have the strongest characters, they both managed to inject a healthy dose of charisma to give them a little more life.

Ludwig Göransson’s score stood out to me as well. It always felt appropriate, ramping up the energy during big action scenes and cooling down when characters needed a minute to talk. I was, on the whole, very impressed with the finished product.

All of this being said, “Tenet” has a laundry list of is-

sues, most of which come from the script.

It’s abundantly clear no one told Nolan he may have gone a little too far with “Tenet.” While the description I gave might make it seem a bit complex, it doesn’t even scratch the surface. On top of having a tricky subject matter, “Tenet” is comically dense.

Despite being 150 minutes long, it doesn’t feel nearly long enough to cover all the ground it needs to.

And once you finally crack through the puzzle box that is the basic concept, you reach a

fairly hollow story led by truly lackluster characters.

Washington and Pattinson don’t have any motivation other than saving the world. Debicki’s character is motivated by her son, a prop who doesn’t have any purpose other than to be a prop. The villain doesn’t reveal his beliefs until the very end, and by then I didn’t really care anymore. I had basically given up on trying to understand these characters as people and instead just let myself enjoy what I was watching.

So, is “Tenet” actually good?

Yeah, I think it is.

While a lot about “Tenet” merits criticism, I can’t deny I was enjoying it while in the theater. I liked watching the action. I liked hearing the score. I liked looking at Robert Pattinson. It was a lot of fun, especially to watch on a big screen.

I maintain you should only go to a theater if you feel safe, but if you do, “Tenet” is the movie to watch. zrhsu@iu.edu

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IU’s students are enrolled in a collective 1.2 million credit hours this semester. With most of IU’s classes taking place over Zoom, this translates to about 100,000 student cases of Zoom Fatigue. Students, staff and faculty are holed up wherever there’s

Wi-Fi and a computer screen, attending endless meetings until it’s time to go to bed. But with IU’s Dunn Meadow, a river that runs through campus and an atrium in Franklin Hall, there are plenty of spaces for you to explore as a change of pace.

If looking at the same walls all day is driving you insane, try answering your next Zoom call or reviewing

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Whether you’re taking 12, 18 or a million credit hours, working toward a degree during the coronavirus pandemic is an accomplishment. Treat yourself, text your friend and try to live your life outside of work.

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Dunn Meadow After spending the spring and summer in lockdown before coming to IU, many students are ready to go outside. Dunn Meadow has shady wooded areas, riverside spots and sunny grasslands. Make sure to pack your own blankets, chairs or hammocks. This is a wide, open space.

Indiana Memorial Union Near the center of campus, the IMU has quiet study spaces such as the east lounge and social spaces for group work such as the IMU Starbucks. Both indoor and outdoor seats are spaced out to encourage social distancing, and wipes, rags and cleaning spray are free to use.

Franklin Hall Here, students can sit in the atrium, where natura natural al the sunlight shines through the window ceiling, on th he study upstairs balcony or in the three single-person stud dy rooms. If you are tired from looking at your laptop p screen, catch shift your gaze to the giant media screen and catc ch up with the news.

H Herman B Wells Library If you’re ssomeone who needs total silence when doing schoolworkk or studying, Wells Library is for you. Spots in the libraries, many study rooms, computers and desks are reservation now by res servation only due to the COVID-19 pandemic provide but still provid de a much needed break from the dorms. The has an eatery and cafe, but students have to eat library also ha Seeing other people will help you feel less isolated. outside. Seein

Soma Coffeehouse and Juice Bar To combat Zoom Fatigue, order an esp espresso presso drink and a decadent cookie from Soma to stay en engaged gaged through your next class. There are three locations in n Bloomington but two are close to campus: one off Kirkwood Kirkw wood Avenue and one on Third Street, which makes it extremely extrem mely easy for students from every part of campus to come and d study at their outdoor seating.

Runcible Spoon For many, online class somehow seems harder than in-person class. Students can look forward to something after a long week by planning a visit to Runcible Spoon to eat breakfast at any time of the day. The restaurant has indoor and outdoor seating.

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ALEXANDRA’S ANGLE

‘Dark humor’ can be hurtful Alexandra Sulewski is a freshman in journalism.

played a 20-game conference schedule — 10 home games and 10 away — plus a 10 to 12 game nonconference schedule.

In a conference-only bubble, Big Ten teams potentially will play zero nonconference opponents unless smaller nonconference bubbles are played before the bubble is created, as is reportedly possible with IU and the Maui Invitational. If nonconference bubbles are held, it would give the Big Ten enough time to start its bubble around January 1. The conference could keep its 20-game conference schedule and finish the regular season and start its tournament by early March, hopefully paving a way for a potential NCAA tournament.

While a bubble may be the only option to save the season, a Big Ten season without fans could make for a very different season from 2019-20. Home teams dominated during conference play last year, going a combined 178-57, including only two teams with more than five losses and three teams with just one home loss. This season, home-court advantage could be as simple as a virtual pep band or student section.

While a lot is yet to be decided when it comes to the upcoming Big Ten basketball season, one thing is for certain, the safest and most likely path to playing involves a bubble.

From high profile comedians to teens on TikTok, dark humor is a form of comedy utilized across all media platforms. It can bring people together to make light of an unfortunate situation and it can isolate those at the brunt end of the joke. The idea of dark humor is controversial at its core, especially considering that its subjects are often disputed.

The harsh and edgy jokes are meant to poke fun at otherwise not humorous situations.

In difficult times, laughter can provide physical benefits. According to Mayo Clinic, laughter can increase the amount of endorphins, which stimulate happiness. It can also promote the production of natural painkillers. However, the line between a harmless joke and an insensitive comment can be blurred and sometimes nonexistent. While scrolling through TikTok recently, I came across a comment from a user that said the video creator could be their “Anne Frank,” in a reference to the famous diarist who had to hide to escape persecution in Nazi-era Germany.

I was appalled by the joke itself, but I was almost equally appalled by the response. While the original comment got thousands of likes, the few replies calling it out for being derogatory got under a hundred each.

Users responding with requests to remove the comment were left unanswered. The commenter may or may not have meant to be offensive, but the result was shocking. This example brings up a valuable message about the difference between utilizing dark humor and being blatantly disrespectful. Before making a joke that can be considered harsh or potentially hurtful, it is important to consider a few things.

One of the biggest components of dark humor is the ability of the user to draw on personal experiences, especially difficult ones, to bring levity to it and connect with others that have similar experiences. Raceor gender-based jokes can be funny when made by a person within the demographic of which they are making fun.

When a joke is made at the expense of others, it crosses the line and becomes offensive.

This includes using slurs to describe marginalized groups.

When the use of a slur is the only punchline, it is best to rethink the joke. A good way to judge whether a joke relies solely on insulting a group is whether or not the person would make the same comment in front of those they are describing. If there is any hesitance in whether one would want another to hear or see it, then the joke should not be made in the first place.

When making edgy commentary about a friend or family member, it is important to check with them first. Losing relationships is not worth a few laughs at the expense of a loved one. A Harvard Business Review article says that aside from hurting relationships, using inappropriate jokes can also make the person attempting to garner laughs look incompetent in professional settings.

Even with careful considerations, it is still possible to offhandedly make a comment that can cause harm. Being defensive when called out will not solve the problem and could cause an even greater disturbance. Excusing a poorlyworded joke as “dark humor” does not change the fact that it can hurt someone’s feelings.

Dismissing critics as “snowflakes” and belittling their feelings does not make one a comedian, but an obnoxious, inconsiderate person.

Taking constructive feedback and admitting to mistakes prevents insulting jokes from being made again. It also provides greater context the next time one thinks about making a dark joke. When used thoughtfully and carefully, dark humor has the potential to bring together those who share similar traumas or dark experiences to aid in the healing process. But it is best to use this form of comedy with caution.

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IU sophomores (from left to right) Maxine Gordon, Ravyn Sweat and Noa Gauthier sit in the quarantined Gamma Phi Beta sorority living room. "Wear a mask in common areas," a sign reads.

MAGGIE’S MUSINGS

I live in a greek house. IU failed its students by bringing us back.

Maggie Mulligan is a sophomore studying recreational therapy and theatre.

Mulligan is a member of the Redstepper Dance Team, Gamma Phi Beta sorority and the Panhellenic Association Diversity and Inclusion board.

As the list of greek houses quarantined grows, the blame for IU’s COVID-19 caseload gets placed on the greek life community. It is a conclusion rather easy to jump to, seeing as greek life has a population of more than 2,600 people and is notorious for being a social institution.

Many greek life members have found themselves in the impossible situation of not knowing where to live, not knowing what to do and feeling as though the university has turned its back on them. Here’s the fact of the matter: IU failed all of us with its COVID-19 re-

sponse, likely knowing any effort to bring students back to Bloomington would make the virus next to impossible to contain. Look no further than the United States’ inability to grapple with the pandemic and the ever-increasing number of cases.

“My sorority is doing their part each and every day and it is going unnoticed by IU,” said Catie Francek, a sophomore in Sigma Kappa. “As with many other chapters on this campus, they have done everything IU has asked of them, and instead they are blaming every greek life chapter for an ‘alarming increase in positive COVID-19 cases.’”

The risk in coming back to school was one that could have been avoided. Being from out of state, I can confidently say I was dreaming of when I would be able to walk the streets of Bloomington again. But our country has criminally mismanaged the pandemic.

Those few months we all spent in quarantine were not enough, and the proof is in the more than six million total cases and 188,551 deaths in the U.S. IU knew of this reality, yet still invited us back.

An IDS editorial published Sept. 3 reported a 20% positivity rate among greek residents. It also argued IU must be transparent with its data, demanding the university release all relevant statistics. Detailing individual greek houses while not doing the same for residence halls is in no way an accurate representation of COVID-19 cases across campus.

It may also be a violation of students’ privacy rights.

“Personally identifying students is problematic,” said LeRoy Rooker, former director of the Department of Education's Family Policy Compliance Office. “Targeting the houses individually is the same as saying a cer-

tain floor in a dormitory has a COVID outbreak. If you know someone who lives on that floor, you will know they are positive.”

In a press conference Sept. 3, the university said students currently living in greek housing should seek other living arrangements or consider going home.

That recommendation disregards the students who live out of state and those who can not go home because they would be putting loved ones at risk.

“I live with my 83-yearold grandmother who is in the category of high-risk individuals that if they contracted COVID-19, it could be fatal,” Francek said. “Going home is not an option.”

More than ever, the IU community needs to be a united front. Thousands of students in the greek community and university housing are uncertain if they will have a place to live this semester. Many do not have

the ability to go home.

The statement telling me I might have to move concluded with a simple, indifferent direction: “focus on your studies.” While jeopardizing my housing and sense of security, the university treated me with the same callousness it did all of its students when they invited us back. If your home was being snatched from under you, would you be able to focus on your studies?

The university is the one that brought students back knowing the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic nationwide. It was the university who told those living in greek housing it would be acceptable to live in if certain guidelines were to be followed. Yet here we are, with thousands of students potentially out of housing because it was the university who misled them. maggmull@iu.edu

PAT TRICK

Here’s how to make a Big Ten basketball bubble work Patrick Felts is a freshman in journalism.

The NBA announced that the league would be returning to play in an isolated bubble on the campus of Walt Disney World in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on June 4. Since then, the season has gone off without a hitch, with zero positive cases of COVID-19. Bubbles are the easiest way to play sports safely during the pandemic and may be the only way IU basketball and the rest of the Big Ten takes the court this winter.

Location In a typical year, the Big Ten hosts its basketball tournament in either Chicago or Indianapolis (one-time stops in Washington, D.C. and New York notwithstanding).

Both of those cities make a lot of sense from a geographical standpoint, with the majority of the conference in the Midwest.

Between the two options, Indianapolis is the best choice. CBS Sports college basketball insider Jon Rothstein reported the NCAA was considering a bubble in downtown Indianapolis, which makes sense as the city has been the location of many premier events including NCAA Tournament regionals, the Final Four and Super Bowl XLVI. The compact layout of the city bodes well for a bubble environment, and a benefit for Indianapolis is the Sky-

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Then-junior forward Justin Smith gains control of the ball as Nebraska tries to block him in the Big Ten Tournament on March 11 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. It was the last game played before the Big Ten canceled all spring sports due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Walk, a series of interconnected tunnels and indoor walkways that stretch across the city. This interconnectivity throughout the city would allow teams to remain isolated from the outside world while granting them some freedom and ease of transportation.

Venues While Indianapolis is home to multiple basketballspecific venues, including the Indiana Pacers’ Bankers Life Fieldhouse, Butler University’s Hinkle Fieldhouse and IUPUI’s Indiana Farmers Coliseum, none of those would be used in my bubble plan.

Instead, the games would be played at the Indiana Convention Center and the Colts’ Lucas Oil Stadium.

Why those venues over arenas designed for basketball? They are connected on the SkyWalk, allowing for players, coaches and team personnel to safely travel to games while limiting contact as much as possible.

While it may seem odd to have basketball games in a convention center and NFL stadium, both of these venues have actually been home to basketball games in the past. The Indiana Convention Center hosted the AAU Tournament of Champions event in July, and Lucas Oil Stadium was the location of the 2010 and 2015 NCAA Final Four and is scheduled to hold the 2021 Final Four. Additionally, these spaces are big enough to build multiple courts in them to maximize

the number of games able to be played.

Housing One important piece for making the bubble work is finding adequate housing for all the teams. With the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium housing the games, teams would stay in one of the 12 hotels connected to those venues via the SkyWalk. This creates the ultimate ease of commuting and safety as those within the bubble are truly sealed off from the outside world.

Format and Schedule College basketball schedules are going to look very different in 2020 compared to the typical season. Since 2017, Big Ten teams have

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Spikeball is now a staple for IU students

By Aidan Kunst akunst@iu.edu | @aidankunst

If you’ve walked through IU’s campus at all this fall semester, chances are you’ve seen plenty of those black and yellow circular nets with four students gathered around. Those aren’t mini-trampolines, they’re Spikeball nets, the sport that has made its way from a beach in Hawaii to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Childhood friends Chris Ruder, Patrick Kennedy, Tim Kennedy and Matt Ruder played a game in their Chicago neighborhood back in 1989 bought for them by Patrick and Tim’s father, Joe. The four kids loved it, but when other people observed them, they were confused.

They wondered what the game was, how to play and where to find it.

Spikeball has been described as a cross between four-square and volleyball. It’s a two-on-two team game where players serve, touch and spike a small rubber ball onto the round net. Players stand six feet from the net, and after the ball is served, they are able to move freely and hit in any direction. Teams have up to three “touches” before they must spike the ball back onto the net.

The four of them continued to play the game — officially called “roundnet” — as they grew older, even after the original inventor stopped marketing it around 1990.

They had long talked about trying to bring the game back in some capacity, but one week on vacation finally made them commit.

“We got tired of hearing the questions while we were playing this game even though the company had gone defunct and we were holding our last few sets together

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with duct tape,” Patrick said. “We told ourselves that we’re going to resurrect this, we’re going to bring this game back. In 2004, we were on a beach in Hawaii, and we said, ‘Enough of this banter about rekindling this, let’s go do this.’”

The group moved to obtain trademarks and a utility patent, and by 2008, Spikeball had officially started. Despite the success the company experienced, it was never about the money.

“Our aim was not necessarily to create a great business,” Patrick said. “We wanted to create the next great American sport because we enjoyed it so much and we were so upset, disturbed, disappointed that not everyone could have a Spikeball set.”

After a 2015 appearance on ABC’s “Shark Tank,” which resulted in a deal with entrepreneur Daymond John that ultimately fell through, the popularity of the sport skyrocketed.

In the years since, a Spikeball World Tour has been established.

The sport has been televised on ESPN and in the 2019-20 school year, 196 colleges and universities had a Spikeball club team. IU did not have a team.

“Spikeball is fun because it’s a fast-paced game that really makes you have to work with your teammate,” IU freshman Nick Bilotta said. “It takes a lot of communication and talking to get good at it.”

While Patrick enjoys seeing the masses of college students that enjoy Spikeball, he is most proud of the community that has been built up around the sport, particularly in regards to in-game sportsmanship.

“One of our company goals is don’t be a jerk,” Patrick said. “It is one of the guiding principles

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Students play Spikeball on Sept. 6 in a backyard in Bloomington. Spikeball tournaments across the country were canceled as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

of Spikeball as a company. In our community, there is camaraderie, there is no absence of desire to win, no shortage of wanting to win and to win big, but there is a greater enjoyment by way of the sportsmanship that is evident in every Spikeball game that I’ve seen.”

This isn’t just talk from the company either — they live it. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Spikeball had tournaments across the U.S. canceled. Instead, they decided to make the dates when there would

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“Spikeball is a good alternative, it’s only a four-person game so you’re probably playing with four really close friends and have really no fear really of catching COVID-19 from them,” IU freshman Bryce Wolff said. “It’s outdoors and does take a lot of effort and burns a good amount of calories.”

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